It wasn't even a complaint, it was just like I still can't put the two together in my mind.
I know what you mean. It feels like she crammed everything into this book all in the name of keeping the big mysteries secret or whatnot, and it just all didn't hold together at all. I feel like she really just lost a handle on the entire thing somehow, and should have been advised to step back and look at things and take things out or something. Or just clarify. Or just come up with a better frigging way of tying everything together.
I mean, honestly, the advertisers knew what they were doing, advertising whether Snape would be good or evil - that was pretty much the only *interesting* Big Mystery left. After that, there was the Lily thing, which was thin, and the Hallows thing, which was even thinner. I wonder when the hell she got the idea for the Hallows, honestly, because she definitely didn't capitalise on the visible ones sooner. If not drawing some attention to Dumbles' wand, she could have made the Cloak seem, I dunno, more like some mysterious object rather than this wicked useful prop for sneaking out and having sex beneath with.
The way JKR writes her characters is great for fanfic That's definitely it, I think. I love how accessible it all is, honestly- just kinda wish things had been a little more put together in the plotting department. ESPECIALLY after reading better-plotted stuff, I feel she could probably have done better. It's definitely not the kids' fantasy thing - Eoin Colfer does just fine for himself in that genre, and so does Garth Nix.
And I do interact differently with characters from other stories- for the most part, I let them just be, and if they aren't really taking me along with them, I usually just stop reading. And that can be bloody cool, especially if you're reading something good.
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Date: 2007-07-22 01:28 am (UTC)I know what you mean. It feels like she crammed everything into this book all in the name of keeping the big mysteries secret or whatnot, and it just all didn't hold together at all. I feel like she really just lost a handle on the entire thing somehow, and should have been advised to step back and look at things and take things out or something. Or just clarify. Or just come up with a better frigging way of tying everything together.
I mean, honestly, the advertisers knew what they were doing, advertising whether Snape would be good or evil - that was pretty much the only *interesting* Big Mystery left. After that, there was the Lily thing, which was thin, and the Hallows thing, which was even thinner. I wonder when the hell she got the idea for the Hallows, honestly, because she definitely didn't capitalise on the visible ones sooner. If not drawing some attention to Dumbles' wand, she could have made the Cloak seem, I dunno, more like some mysterious object rather than this wicked useful prop for sneaking out
and having sex beneathwith.The way JKR writes her characters is great for fanfic
That's definitely it, I think. I love how accessible it all is, honestly- just kinda wish things had been a little more put together in the plotting department. ESPECIALLY after reading better-plotted stuff, I feel she could probably have done better. It's definitely not the kids' fantasy thing - Eoin Colfer does just fine for himself in that genre, and so does Garth Nix.
And I do interact differently with characters from other stories- for the most part, I let them just be, and if they aren't really taking me along with them, I usually just stop reading. And that can be bloody cool, especially if you're reading something good.